A family dispute has disturbed renovations to the Mandela Mansion.
reported that the Collen Mashawana Foundation would renovate the house after it was abandoned by its inhabitants.
The house was without electricity and had been left unkept with parts of the structure falling apart., a representative of the Collen Mashawana Foundation, Ayanda Mcoyi said the foundation had begun to renovate the house but was told to temporarily stop.“The project has been stopped for two months now. They have not indicated when we can go ahead, but we let them know that we are waiting on them,” Mcoyi said.
“We had used hundreds of thousands already with regard to cutting the grass, fixing the pool, providing water and electricity in the house, and we used our own Collen Mashawana funds,” she said. Mcoyi said the Foundation was doing the work in memory of Madiba’s memory and would love to finish the work.“We would love for the renovations to carry on. It’s not about the money, it’s about finishing the monumental building,” she said.
Despite the poor state of the Mandela house, patrons and those who have a deep love for Madiba continue to lay flowers outside the house where he spent his last years.The Johannesburg Heritage Foundation said it was concerned about the state of the Mandela mansion.
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